Cuba announced on Sept. 13 that it will begin administering its own COVID-19 vaccinations to children as young as two, despite the vaccines having not yet been recognized by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The announcement was made through Cuba’s state-run media, and the country aims to inoculate at least 90 percent of the population, according to Voice of…
Cuba Begins Administering Homegrown Vaccinations to Children as Young as Two
US Gulf Coast Braces for Category 4 Landfall of Hurricane Ida After Cuba Takes Hit
Hurricane Ida battered Cuba with roof-ripping force on Friday as it churned toward a weekend U.S. landfall along the Louisiana coast, prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orleans neighborhoods and oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. By late on Friday, Ida was packing sustained winds of up to 80 miles per hour (129 kph), according…
Communism Lives On, but What Is Its Agenda?
With the fall of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, people rejoiced that the threat of communism was no more. But the threat of communism is still very much alive in countries like Cuba and China, where totalitarian regimes rule over the population through fear and violence. At the same time, communist ideas have infiltrated…
White House Announces New Round of Sanctions Against Cuba
The White House on Friday announced a new round of sanctions against top Cuban officials and forces after the communist regime violently cracked down mass protests in July. The move, confirmed by the Department of Treasury, is the second time in recent days the administration has moved to penalize the Cuban Communist Party. Romarico Vidal…
Antonella Marty: How Socialist, Communist Ideology Took Over Cuba, Latin America
“Communism destroys the incentives. It destroys the most important essence of the human being … liberty,” says Antonella Marty, director of the Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America. At FreedomFest in South Dakota, we sat down with Marty to discuss the spread of communist and socialist ideology in Latin America—from Cuba to Venezuela to her…
American Socialists Use Doublethink to Ignore Cuban Anti-Communist Protests—Zilvinas Silenas
There are large-scale anti-communist protests now taking place in Cuba, yet many socialists in the United States have been either trying to turn a blind eye to the state violence against the protesters or are trying to shift blame to trade restrictions by the United States. To learn more about why this is, we sat…
Chinese Paramilitary Trained Cuban Security Forces Responsible for Suppressing Peaceful Protesters
Cuban military and police forces responsible for clamping down on peaceful demonstrators have received “counter terrorism” training from Chinese paramilitary, reports from Chinese state media show. Rare anti-government protests erupted around the island in July as citizens took to the street calling for greater freedoms and better living conditions. While nearly two dozen countries worldwide…
Chinese Paramilitary Trained Cuban Security Forces Responsible for Suppressing Protesters
Cuban military and police forces responsible for clamping down on demonstrators have received “counter-terrorism” training from Chinese paramilitary, reports from Chinese state media show. Rare anti-government protests erupted around the island in July as citizens took to the streets calling for greater freedoms and better living conditions. While nearly two dozen countries worldwide have voiced…
Sending Back the Cubans
Commentary The Biden administration is sending back Cubans who show up on American shores fleeing political persecution in their home country. Just last week, the U.S. Coast Guard announced the repatriation of 27 Cuban refugees to the communist country. They were caught attempting to make their way to Florida on two separate vessels. These are…
US Sets New Cuba Sanctions as Biden Meets Cuban-Americans
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration announced new sanctions on Friday against Cuba’s national revolutionary police and its top two officials as the United States looks to increase pressure on the communist regime following this month’s protests on the island. The Police Nacional Revolcionaria (PNR) and the agency’s director and deputy director, Oscar Callejas Valcarce and Eddie Sierra…
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